Major League Baseball

MLB Stats API

The MLB Stats API is the modern statistics and game-data service operated by Major League Baseball. It powers official scoreboards, gameday feeds, and downstream applications with endpoints for schedule, live game state, box scores, play-by-play, players, teams, standings, venues, divisions, and statistical splits. Documentation is hosted at docs.statsapi.mlb.com and access is gated through MLB's identity provider for partners.

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https://docs.statsapi.mlb.com/
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https://statsapi.mlb.com/

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: major-league-baseball:mlb-stats-api
name: MLB Stats API
description: The MLB Stats API is the modern statistics and game-data service operated by Major League
  Baseball. It powers official scoreboards, gameday feeds, and downstream applications with endpoints
  for schedule, live game state, box scores, play-by-play, players, teams, standings, venues, divisions,
  and statistical splits. Documentation is hosted at docs.statsapi.mlb.com and access is gated through
  MLB's identity provider for partners.
humanURL: https://statsapi.mlb.com/
tags:
- Game Data
- Live Scores
- REST API
- Sports Statistics
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.statsapi.mlb.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://statsapi.mlb.com/